Raky, Hortense |
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BORN 27 Aug 1916, Berlin - DIED 25 Sep 2006, Wien GRAVE LOCATION Wien: Zentralfriedhof, Simmeringer Hauptstraße 234, Simmering (Gruppe 89, Reihe 18, Nummer 51 (Ehrengrab)) |
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Hortense Rake was the daughter of the designer and businessman Anton Raky (1868-1943). She was educated as an actress at the Reinhardt-Seminar in Vienna. In 1934 she appeared successfully at the Theater in der Josefstadt in "Die Prinzessin auf der Leiter (Meine Schwester und ich)" under the direction of Otto Preminger (1905-1986). In November of that year she played with her future husband Karl Paryla in Carl Zuckmayer's "Der Schelm von Bergen". In 1936 she appeared in the movie "Burgtheater". She was the daughter of a Jew and disliked the nazis. In 1937 she went to Budapest to film and in 1938 she moved to Amsterdam where she joined the exile cabinet "Theater der Prominenten" in Amsterdam and Scheveningen. Around this time she married the actor Willy Stettner (1895-1965), but they divorced soon afterwards. Later in 1938 she emigrated to Switzerland, where she was employed at the Schauspielhaus in Zürich. Paryla worked there as well and married in 1939. Their sons Nikolaus (b.1939) and Stephan (b.1948) both became actors. After the war Raky worked in theatres in Germany, including the Deutsches Theater in East-Berlin from 1956 to 1961. In 1965 appeared there in Schiller's "Kabale und Liebe". In the 1960s she worked under Fritz Kortner at the Münchener Kammerspielen. In 1972 she played the part of archduchess Ludovica in the television movie "Elisabeth Kaiserin von Österreich". In 1979 she received the Josef-Kainz Medaillion of the City of Vienna. He marriage with Paryla lasted until his death in 1996. Hortense Raky died in 2006 in Vienna and was buried in the grave of her husband at the Zentralfriedhof. Family • Husband: Paryla, Karl (1939-1996) |
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 The grave of Karl Paryla and Hortense Raky at the Zentralfriedhof, Vienna. Picture by Androom (28 Aug 2014) |
